By Vincent Ikuomola, Abuja

Two Hundred and Ninety-eight Nigerians have been evacuated from Egypt and South Africa, the Federal Government said on Thursday.

The Nation learnt that while 112 stranded Nigerians were evacuated from Egypt, 186 Nigerians came in from South Africa.

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According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the flight conveying the Egyptian evacuees departed Cairo at 4.15am on Thursday, while the evacuees from South Africa, conveyed by Air Peace, according to the media aide to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sarah Sanda departed O.R. Tambo International Airport at about 4.30pm.

“The last Evacuation flight from South Africa Air Peace is taking off at 4.30 pm local time from OR Tambo International Airport, Johannesburg to Lagos with 186 passengers. About 35 are for Abuja,” Sanda stated.

Over 10, 000 Nigerians are stranded in various countries since the global lockdown in March occasioned by COVID-19.